wtorek, 21 czerwca 2016

Hello again! I'm back from my Irish holiday (I will give you soon a separate post from that). Today the game we had two weeks ago in our club. It was Sudan game prepared by Campbell. There was 6 players involved in the game and umpire.

2. The game. Gra.

As usual in that kind of games, the British and their allies had to go somewhere or relief something. This time it was the tower with the British constructors trapped in. The British had to reach the tower, free the trapped engineers and help some Sudanese troops to withdraw back to Egypt. The Mahdists had to prevent it. Also Mahdists could be deployed on any place on the table. I chose to put all troops as close as we could, to the possible British entry place and of course, hidden and ready to strike.

British and Egyptian troops enter the table in few different places in columns. That was their first mistake. It allowed Mahdist to spread the forces and eliminate the opponent one after another. The Egyptian cavalry ride across the table without support failed too and soon unit after unit get slaughtered. Finaly all troops were pushed back to the corner of the table and then finally annihilated.

Anglo Egyptian defeat left Sudanese troops in very bad situation. Our new club member Michael had to face a number of incoming Mahdists. Six big Mahdist warbands supported with a gun moved against him. He fought bravely but finally he get slaughtered too. The game finished with great Mahdist victory!

czwartek, 9 czerwca 2016

Today my last part of the relation from my visit in Paris. This time the second part from the Army Museum, the most awaited part: the Napoleonic and the World Wars. That's are the most impresive collections of the museum and I have spent the most of my time there. Unfortunately, the lights in the museum together with glass displays are not conducive to the performance of the best photos, but I tried my best. This is the result:

THE TWO WORLD WARS - FROM 1871 TO 1945

There are two other exhibitions in the museum. One is about General Charles de Gaulle, his life and his influence on France. That is mostly interactive, so not many pictures, but I managed to get two. One is when de Gaulle was in Poland during Polish-Bolshevik War in 1920 and the second shortly after German took Paris in 1940, visiting the Arc de Triumph. The last exhibition is called The Museum of the Order of Liberation, but was closed for renovation, so I have the reason to visit this museum again.
W muzeum są jeszcze dwie ekspozycje. Pierwsza z nich opowiada o życiu generała Charlesa de Gaulle i jego wpływie na Francję. większość tej ekspozycji jest interaktywna, więc niezbyt wiele mozna tam zrobić zdjęć, ja zrobiłem dwa. Pierwsze pochodzi z czasów wojny polsko-bolszewickiej z 1920 roku, gdy de Gaulle był w Polsce oraz drugie, wykonane krótko po zajęciu Paryża przez Niemców w 1940 roku, odwiedzających Łuk Triumfalny. Ostatnia wystawa nosi nazwę Muzeum Orderu Wolności i była zamknięta z powodu remontu, mam więc powód by odwiedzić to muzeum ponownie.

My last place I have visited in Paris was the Père Lachaise cementary. The main reason was to visit the tomb of Frideric Chopin, however during my way to his tomb I came across that monument for all Poles, who died for France. Beautiful and very emotional.

wtorek, 7 czerwca 2016

Last Thursday we had 500 pts game with Battlegroup Fall of the Reich. The game was set up, somewhere in East Prussia. Germans were defending. There were two objectives: a large hill and the church tower.

1. Forces. Siły.

Regular, each infantry squad had Panzerfaust, one squad equipped with Assault Riffles, all MG teams had Bipod MG42

Combat Medic

Motorised Reconnaissance Patrol (Recce)

SdKfz 250/9 (Recce)

Panther Platton

Marder III Ausf. H

Off table 88mm AT shot

Officers: 3

BR: 26

PTS: 516

SOVIETS/SOWIECI

(Campbell Hardie)

Forward HQ in Gaz Jeep

Riffle Platoon

Inexperienced, Light Mortar

T-80 (Scout)

BA-64 (Scout)

T-34/85 Platoon

SU-76M battery

SU-85 battery

82mm Mortar Battery (2 mortars)

Officers: 5

BR: 35

PTS: 505

2. The game. Gra.

Campbell started game with pushing everything what he had available forward. However his reinforcements rolls were very, very poor. Alan had ambushed Recce Patrol with 2 panzerfausts. They wait for the soviet tanks, but terrible missed... So the only hope for Germans were in Panthers. Those mighty tanks take their chance against Soviet vehicles, but there were to much of them. Campbell very clever used his mortars and kept most of the German units pinned. That caused that Alan had to pick up battle counters and the German situation was not look well. However when Soviets reached the outskirts of the town, German guns started to decimated Red tanks. Alan even managed to get artillery support. Finally both players were close to their breaking points, but Campbell managed to destroy last Panther and that was enough for Germans. Game finished with Soviet victory.

sobota, 4 czerwca 2016

My computer is fixed, all my photos are save! So today first part from my visit in the Paris's Army Museum. Most of you know the story behind the creation of that place, so I will not put it here. However I can said something, it is absolutely must visit place. It took me about six hours to look at all things available for visitors and I can said one big WOW! This number of uniforms, armour etc. etc. It is overwhelming experience. I made some pictures, which will be available on my Flickr. I am sorry in advance, many of the pictures are very poor quality, The light in the museum is very bad, but I hope that it only force you to visit that place. So here you are some galleries: